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Lost my appetite yesterday. Came back a little today, but some toast and soup was all I could handle. The ribeye is gonna have to wait a couple days 😉

No loss of taste. No appetite yesterday, but that’s a little better today. Minor dry cough, fever off and on, lethargy, some aches and chills. Diarrhea has been the worst of it.

Finally got the rona. Haven’t worn a mask since they dropped the mandate and didn’t get any boosters once the milder variants showed up. Hopefully the symptoms stay relatively mild. Basically feels like the flu right now.

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From the article: “We think it is not fair that we were not allowed to be a part of this decision about our working conditions, nor for Starbucks to claim they could not provide a safe experience for our workplace,” said Mari Cosgrove, an employee at one of the Seattle stores that is closing. Am I think only one on here who finds it hilarious that employees that essentially amount to burger flippers are crying that they don’t have a say in what the national chain they work for decides to do with its franchises?

Insanity.

It always bothers me when I see stories like this. Out of one side of her mouth she says she wants the truth, then out of the other side of her mouth she says it could’ve been avoided, and that the officers had other options. If you don’t yet know the truth then how can you possibly say that the officers didn’t do the right thing? If the criminal rammed a cop car with a stolen vehicle and then jumped out with a handgun, this is about as justified as it gets. I saw an interview with one of this guy’s friends when it first happened and his buddy put all of the blame on him and his bad decisions. I was pleasantly surprised.

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And somebody else’s. I personally know three people who’ve been convicted of intoxication manslaughter. Every case was wildly different from the other, but all three took lives with bad decisions.

Sad deal. This happened close enough to my house that my power was out for 3 hours due to the crash. I didn’t know the man, but everyone I’ve heard from that did said he was a really good guy.

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Biden won the last election by not being Donald Trump. With the disaster that is currently our economy, the only way the dems will have a shot in the next election is if they again get to run a campaign under the “Not Donald” mantra. Apathetic dems and swing vote moderates are not going to be motivated to vote for a mediocre Democratic nominee, but many will still get out to vote against Trump.

I’m decent with a pistol, and I can fire a full magazine (15 rounds) in 7-8 seconds, maybe even a little quicker. At a fairly close range (let’s say the distance between the car doors of two vehicles that are touching nose to nose, such as in this instance), even when shooting for speed rather than accuracy, the majority of those 15 rounds will land in a grouping not much larger than a saucer plate. A human torso is probably 12-15x the size of a saucer. A human head is 1.5x the size of a saucer. Even with a moving a target, some, if not many of those 15 rounds are going to hit what I’m aiming at. I’m not telling you these things to brag. I know many people who shoot better than me. I’m telling you this to explain why a police officer is absolutely not going to wait for someone to shoot at him before he starts to shoot. Even if the criminal is a bad shot it only takes one lucky round to end an officer’s life. if he’s even marginally skilled with a pistol, especially inside 30 ft, the odds of an officer getting hit is much too high for him to wait and see if a criminal is planning on using the weapon or not. Far too often people expect police officers to do things that create unnecessary added risk to an already incredibly dangerous job in order to avoid hurting or killing dumb criminals making stupid choices. A few examples: 1. Police should wait for someone to shoot at them before they pull the trigger. 2. police should aim for people’s legs so they can “stop the threat without killing anyone.” 3. police should shoot one or two times and then stop and see if the criminal is giving up. If the criminal is still shooting at them, then police can shoot again. 4. police should always try to use a tazer first when faced with a deadly weapon. what it all boils down to is that police officers don’t have to put the safety and well-being of criminals who are in a position to hurt or kill them ahead of their own.

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That will help some. But I don’t believe the demand for cheap adoptions will come close to keeping up with the amount of unwanted babies, so they’re going to have to figure out some other ways to take care of them.

I’m saying that there will be drastically more unwanted babies than there were before Roe vs. Wade, and your question of “how did we manage all of the unwanted babies before 1973” is irrelevant.

Without a doubt. I still bet she got a very nice raise to do it.

I’m really not going to get drawn into a debate about abortion, but I will answer your question with two critical facts you’re forgetting: 1. the population of the US has grown from 200M to 330M in the last 50 years. That’s a massive increase. 2. While there’s no way for me to measure it, I would say that people’s willingness and ability to be accountable for their actions has dropped by a massive amount, and nuclear families are at an all-time low. so you’re going to have exponentially more unwanted babies than you had 50 years ago, and you have a couple of generations currently at the baby making age consisting of many people who have no sense of accountability or responsibility for their actions, with more of these worthless generations coming up the pipeline. all that to say, the number of unwanted babies is likely to be triple or quadruple what they were 50 years ago, and those babies 50 years ago weren’t exactly well taken care of.

Can’t blame her for doing what’s best for him, although I’m quite sure a job magically opened up for her with a nice pay raise to get him over there

I’m sure his family moved there for work…

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That’s why I say make it a minute. Teams can still slow it waaaay down, but you won’t see teams holding for the last shot with 3 minutes left in the half, or stuff like the campfire formation that lumberton tried this past season. Also, if it’s an even minute refs can monitor it pretty easily. Maybe start motioning down from ten seconds like they do in the back court to warn the players. It wouldn’t be perfect, but if a team held the ball a full 60 seconds I wouldn’t really care if they got screwed on a bad shot clock call once in awhile.

I’m just glad Texas doesn’t have to play Tennessee.